Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande’s Look on the Normalcy of Terrorism in The United States in His Article “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready” Atul Gawande, a literary writer and doctor in Boston, portrays the devastation of the bombings at the Boston Marathon and the heroic acts performed by emergency medical teams, nurses, and doctors alike. However, there is one primary element that Gawande focuses on throughout the article: terrorism is becoming a normalcy in The United States. To explain further, since 9/11…

Journal 10 The issue that Gawande discuss in the reading is about chaperones in doctors appointments. Around the world, in different countries they are interactions between the relationship of the doctor and patient. I think the necessity of a chaperone could be mainly because of a cultural and religious manner, or just because personal preservation. Although the doctors appointments are not necessary sometimes, doctors request them so the chaperone that acknowledge medicine makes sure the…

In “How do we heal medicine,” Atul Gawande, shows his concerns and ideas is his thoughtful Ted Talk, describing the main idea of not all expensive medicine is good medicine, as well as the other way around: not all inexpensive medicine is bad medicine, he also incorporates the argument of many doctor’s need to come together to produce good care for the patient’s. To agree completely with Gawande’s viewpoints, however, to add how important it is to come with the qualities of wanting to make…

Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande who narrates his experiences as a surgeon. Both protagonist work in the field of medicine, yet their approaches differ. Atul Gawande emphasizes ignorance and ineptitude as the key problems in society. Ignore refers to the lack of concepts and solutions, where as ineptitude refers to the existing knowledge but lack of understanding on how to apply the knowledge. I think his leadership style is more rigid as opposed to Dr. Farmer. Atul Gawande is a strict…

In Atul Gawande’s Ted Talk, “How do we heal medicine,” he expresses a concerned yet hopeful tone which explicitly describes the disturbing comparison between the cost of medical care and the lack of care patients are paying for. Even though there is an advancement in medical technology and medicine itself, most medical professionals increase the cost of this machinery to increase their own profit, without looking at the effects of the medicines used on a patient. Dr. Gawande emphasizes how…

In 2009 author and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande’s “HellHole”, an article in New Yorker magazine on what's happening in prisons across America. In the article, Gawande describes that humans are social animals, explaining that “once humans are stripped of consistent social interaction, they began to lose their minds.” Through his personal creditability, detailed emotional descriptions, and attempts to provide solutions, Gawande makes a powerful argument. First, Gawande is credible. He gains…

In January of 2015, Barack Obama issued an executive order banning the use of solitary confinement as a disciplinary tool for juveniles in federal prisons. The President explained his decision, and discussed his understanding of the consequences of solitary, in a Washington Post Op-Ed that same month. Obama wrote that solitary confinement, “has the potential to lead to devastating, lasting psychological consequences”, and that subjecting inmates to unnecessary and prolonged solitary is “an…

Charles Dickens and William Crawford arose and solitary became a much discussed issue until it lost its popularity much later. In the late 20th century solitary regained its popularity and was institutionalized and re-criticized by people like Atul Gawande. Ginzburg directly states the beneficial effects of solitary following…

Response and Summary to “How Do We Heal Medicine” In Atul Gawande’s speech “How do we heal medicine”, the speaker assertively claims that healing medicine requires us to embrace different values from the ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork. A good system was also required for reaching the new values. At the beginning of his speech, Gawande explained how is medicine system changed over the time. Not only by providing present and past data and analyzing those data, but also using…

breaking out and escaping from the wallpaper. Moreover, Atul Gawande, a professor of medicine and public health at Harvard University, examines the Penal System and the detrimental effects regarding isolation in prisons in his essay, “Hellhole.” In “Hellhole” Gawande produces evidence to indicate that the lack of sustained social interaction in isolation deteriorates the human brain until it may become as impaired as one with a traumatic injury. Gawande uses research from monkey experiments…